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Is there any research or clues about whether anxious/calm people are more/less likely to be inventive / creative / develop innovations?
I am interested about this both on an individual and cultural ...

The brain likes to attach meaning to newly learned words, usually in the format of images. I have no data to prove this but you can prove it to yourself simply by closing your eyes, relaxing a little ...

Marijuana has a lot of effects that benefit people who need it medically. However, one of its disadvantages is anxiety. Does anyone know the reason behind the anxiety? Is it from the marijuana itself ...

Being a 18 years old boy, i experimented some things in humans relationships but i'm still considering myself low in this domain, however i noticed some strange things in this life...
I noticed most ...

Can someone please explain this to me because it's driving me bonkers. In cognitive research when one group of participants are exposed to a number of crossed factors manipulated by the researcher, is ...

(Please do not downvote me. if you think this is wrong place to ask such question here then suggest me where I can ask and I will move question there.)
About me:
I am a software engineer in Pakistan ...

TL;DR: What are the necessary and sufficient conditions for deliberate practice?
Longer version:
I've read a number of books/articles on deliberate practice and its role in acquiring expertise. The ...

When a fictional character is killed, no one dies -- and the readers and viewers know this, no matter how much they identify with the story. So what does this narrative device actually mean? Is there ...

I think I've read somewhere that our brain acts as if we were physically hurt (as if we feel pain) when we catch someone lying to us. I couldn't find anything about it on google, and my memory is not ...

I quite enjoy playing games which requires many repetitions of the level in order to get right. These games are often constant-speed scrolling obstacle-course type games where the player must navigate ...

So my girlfriend is not what you would call a fast reader. She understands completely what she reads, but she reads rather slowly. I'm trying to be a good boyfriend and help her out with this, but the ...

We may be able to control our temper most of the times, but there are times when on the spur of the moment we react the way we don't want to. Yet we do so. Why are we not able to carry our conditioned ...

"Building rapport" is often mentioned as one of the most fundamental sales techniques, but I had a hard time understanding the cognitive mechanism behind this. Is this really a state of awareness that ...

I wanted to know what a suitable classical conditioning experiment would be to analyze learning and memory capabilities in rodent models with respect to hippocampal long-term potentiation (LTP).
For ...

I wanted to know what the difference is between dreaming and hallucinating from the neurobiological point of view. . Basically, I want to know what exactly the difference is in the neuro-chemistry of ...

I have ringing in my ears that has become constant over time. Most of the time I just ignore it, to tell you the truth I can't even remember when it started. Lately I'm curious what the frequency of ...

I need some decent explanations/descriptions for each of the 30 Big5 facets, like a1, a2, a3 etc etc.
I have been googling around for it, but all I have found are very short descriptions that vary too ...

When something critical and bad happens, like a house on fire with people inside it, people react very differently.
Some persons will usually panic, cry and can barely be soothed.
Some persons will ...

A "metaphor" seems to be just the discourse-level result of a conceptual blend. If you're more of a Lakoff-guy, I could see you claiming "metaphor", especially a "conceptual metaphor" to be the same ...

I am looking for a rough estimation of the number of action potentials from other neurons required to cause a neuron to fire?
I read here that a potential of ~ -55mv must be reached before an action ...

People are vegan for many different reasons, but many of them may be vegan on idealistic (for example, because they care for the environment) or moral grounds (because they would feel guilty if they ...

In the cognitive sciences Alan Turing is best known for launching AI with his Computing machinery and intelligence (1950). However, this was not his first contribution to the cognitive sciences, in ...

It is known that psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar I, and bipolar II are for life, and require long term treatment (lifelong).
Is this always the case?
The answer could include ...

Are the terms for brain divisions based off of embryonic development (e.g. prosencephalon, diencephalon) used for mature brain divisions? (e.g. forebrain, interbrain). For example, would it be wrong ...

In the brain proper, grey matter forms the outer layer of the brain, and white matter forms the inner layer. In the spine, this is reversed: white matter forms the outer layer of the spine, and grey ...

When developing a model of a biologically-plausible neural network, it is important to know all the circumstances under which neurons can fire. But, I am limiting this question to random firing. In ...

Nice to find this resource on the internet, I’m in need of advice from knowledgeable people in the field regarding the choice of CogSci Master’s program.
My situation is that I have an undergraduate ...

I read recently in the book "meet your happy chemicals" that the hormones of puberty are neurochemicals that cause your neurons to connect and myelinate more easily.
If this is true have any studies ...